Ex-boxer Oscar De La Hoya arrested in Pasadena on DUI charge

Oscar De La Hoya at Battle Night time Membership occasion on the Membership Nokia in Los Angeles, California, 2011. Photograph by DEWALT POWER TOOLS FIGHT NIGHT CLUB 2010 (Flickr: Image 749) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], by way of Wikimedia Commons.

Former skilled boxer Oscar De La Hoya was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of drunken driving in Pasadena, authorities stated.

De La Hoya, forty three, was pulled over about 2 a.m. on Del Mar Boulevard west of Saint John Avenue, the California Freeway Patrol reported.

“A Land Rover was seen rushing on Del Mar Boulevard west of Arroyo Boulevard with mechanical violations,” in line with a CHP assertion. “The car was subsequently pulled over and the driving force was suggested of the rationale for the cease. Whereas talking with the driving force of the car, the investigating officer detected the odor of an alcoholic beverage emitting from contained in the car.” De La Hoya was instructed to get out of the SUV, the place the investigating officer “continued to detect an odor of an alcoholic beverage emitting from the driving force’s breath and individual,” in response to the CHP.

After being given a collection of subject sobriety checks that he allegedly failed, De La Hoya was arrested on suspicion of driving drunk and launched to his supervisor, the CHP reported.

De La Hoya gained a number of world titles in six totally different weight courses earlier than his retirement.

—Metropolis Information Service

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